e blue," it happens suddenly and unexpectedly. Forrest and Jenny reunite for the last time. Forrest soon suffers his greatest sadness, and receives his greatest gift... I kept a scrapbook of your clippings. A "scrapbook" is a personal book of memories, photographs, articles and so on. "Clippings" refer to newspaper clippings, which are a group of specific articles about someone or something. I was messed up for a long time. A common colloquial way to say troubled, or doing poorly. ("To mess up" is also a common phrasal verb). I have got to go. I'm double parked. When a car is "double parked, " it is parked illegally, often in the middle of the street. He's one of the smartest in his class. A common way parents compare their kids to others. I have some kind of virus. The doctors don't know what it is. An important word in biology: A type of tiny parasite or bacteria that often causes disease in people. In this case, the virus is a subtle reference to the AIDS virus (HIV), which appeared in the United States in the early 1980s. I have custom made legs made of titanium alloy. Anything that is "custom-made" is made specifically for one person (as opposed to being mass produced). "Titanium alloy" is a type of very strong metal, used in things like rockets and other machines. It was like before the sun goes down to bed on the bayou. The place where a river enters into a large body of water, such as a lake or ocean. I had that house of your father's bulldozed to the ground. A "bulldozer" is a huge type of truck that levels (or razes) entire buildings to the ground. This is a passive grammatical construction of the related verb. I don't know if we each have a destiny or if were just floating around accidental-like, on a breeze. "Floating around accidental-like on a breeze" is Forrest's way of expressing a bit of existential philosophy: To float without a particular direction, in a universe not of our making, for no particular reason... I'm going to show that at show and tell. "Show and tell" is the part of class time where small children bring things from their houses in order to discuss it with their fellow class mates (A long standing tradition in American elementary schools). Forrest Gump Possible Topics for ESL Class Discussion 1) How would you describe Forrest to a friend? What are his best features? Does he have any bad ones? 2) What were the most important historical events that Forrest and Jenny lived through? 3) How were the lives of Forrest and Jenny different? 4) This film shows much of the social change that the United States went through between the 1950s and the 1980s: Did your country go through similar changes? 5) How is life different in Green Bough County, Alabam
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